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Judith Butler » Read Now
by Sara Salih. 178 pgs.

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Since the publication of Gender in Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as: * The subject * Gender * Sex * Language * The...
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Since the publication of Gender in Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as: * The subject * Gender * Sex * Language * The Psyche With clear discussions of the context and impact of Butler's work and an extensive guide to further reading, this book offers an excellent introduction to one of the most influential critical thinkers writing today.
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Gender Trouble » Read Now
by Judith Butler. 222 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture.
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Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death » Read Now
by Judith Butler. 103 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship -- and open...
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The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship -- and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. Moreover, Antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a livable life. Butler explores the meaning of Antigone, wondering what forms of kinship might have allowed her to live. Along the way, she considers the works of such philosophers as Hegel, Lacan, and Irigaray. How, she asks, would psychoanalysis have been different if it had taken Antigone -- the "postoedipal" subject -- rather than Oedipus as its point of departure? If the incest taboo is reconceived so that it does not mandate heterosexuality as its solution, what forms of sexual alliance and new kinship might be acknowledged as a result? The book relates the courageous deeds of Antigone to the claims made by those whose relations are still not honored as those of proper kinship, showing how a culture of normative heterosexuality obstructs our capacity to see what sexual freedom and political agency could be.
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Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (Chap. 13 "Judith Butler: Excerpts from 'Subversive Bodily Acts'") » Read Now
by Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner, Iain Borden. 434 pgs.

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This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct...
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This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future.
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Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples, in Shakespeare Studies » Read Now
by Judith Butler. 10 pgs.

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Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (Chap. 24 "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" by Judith Butler) » Read Now
by Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, Sarah Stanbury. 434 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Merely Cultural, in New Left Review » Read Now
by Judith Butler. 12 pgs.

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Surface Tensions: Judith Butler on Diane Arbus, in Artforum International » Read Now
by Judith Butler. 7 pgs.

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The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance (Chap. 27 "Critically Queer") » Read Now
by Lizbeth Goodman, Jane De Gay. 324 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new writings from leading scholars, the book...
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The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new writings from leading scholars, the book provides material on:* post-coloniality and performance theory and practice* critical theories and performance* intercultural perspectives* power, politics and the theatre* sexuality in performance* live arts and the media* theatre games.
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Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory (Chap. 4 "Judith Butler's Being-in-Trouble") » Read Now
by Stephen K. White. 158 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

In light of many recent critiques of Western modernity and its conceptual foundations, the problem of adequately justifying our most basic moral and political values looms large. Without recourse to traditional ontological or metaphysical foundations, how can one affirm -- or sustain -- a commitment...
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In light of many recent critiques of Western modernity and its conceptual foundations, the problem of adequately justifying our most basic moral and political values looms large. Without recourse to traditional ontological or metaphysical foundations, how can one affirm -- or sustain -- a commitment to fundamentals? The answer, according to Stephen White, lies in a turn to "weak" ontology, an approach that allows for ultimate commitments but at the same time acknowledges their historical, contestable character. This turn, White suggests, is already underway. His book traces its emergence in a variety of quarters in political thought today and offers a clear and compelling account of what this might mean for our late modern self-understanding.
As he elaborates the idea of weak ontology and the broad criteria behind it, White shows how these are already at work in the thought of contemporary writers of seemingly very different perspectives: George Kateb, Judith Butler, Charles Taylor, and WilliamConnolly. Among these thinkers, often thought to be at odds, he exposes the commonalities that emerge around the idea of weak ontology. In its identification of a critical turn in political theory, and its nuanced explanation of that turn, his book both demonstrates and underscores the strengths of weak ontology.
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As the World Turns: Ontology and Politics in Judith Butler, in Polity » Read Now
by Stephen K. White. 22 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library